May 3 (UPI) — The New York Police Department will hold a press conference Friday about a shot accidentally fired from an officer’s gun during the clearing of protesters from Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall Tuesday.
The bullet hit the frame of a wall, but no one was hurt. The officer was not identified.
The shot was first reported by the local news outlet The City , and confirmed by Doug Cohen, a spokesperson from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
Columbia University spokesperson Ben Chang declined to comment on the shot from the police gun, deferring to the NYPD.
The police have scheduled a news conference for 11:30 a.m. EDT.
The prosecutor’s Police Accountability Unit was reviewing the shot discharged from the NYPD officer’s gun. “It is our policy to review such incidents,” Cohen said.